Brooks Koepka has taken a swipe at Phil Mickelson, successfully calling his fellow American golfer “grasping” amid the continued debate over main Saudi Arabian funding within the sport.
Golf faces an enormous battle for its future amid Saudi Arabia’s $300m greenback funding within the Asia Tour, which is trying to lure the largest names from the PGA and European Excursions with the promise of big funds in its new Tremendous Golf League.
The thought has obtained staunch criticism from some within the golf group together with Rory McIlroy who labelled the undertaking a “cash seize” and raised moral considerations over accepting money from a rustic with such a poor human rights report, whereas Tiger Woods, Jon Rahm and Jordan Spieth have raised their very own doubts in regards to the plans.
However a few of these gamers who’re coming in the direction of the tip of their careers are fastidiously contemplating the proposals. Lee Westwood has beforehand stated it could be a “no-brainer” to just accept a multi-million pound contract as he nears 50 years outdated, and Mickelson, 51, issued a scathing criticism of the PGA Tour’s management of media rights.
“They’ve entry to my photographs, entry I would not have,” Mickelson complained to GolfDigest. “Additionally they cost corporations to make use of photographs I’ve hit. And once I did ‘The Match’—there have been 5 of them—the tour pressured me to pay them $1 million every time. For my very own media rights. That sort of greed is, to me, past obnoxious.”
Responding to the quotes posted on Instagram, a sometimes confrontational Koepka commented: “I don’t know if I’d be utilizing the phrase grasping if I’m Phil.”
Time will inform whether or not sufficient gamers will likely be coaxed over to a Tremendous Golf League to make it a viable mannequin, and whether or not the present can and can observe via with threats to ban gamers from future tournaments.
Kaynak: briturkish.com
